To celebrate this important anniversary, the Caroso 500 project—conceived by Chiara Gelmetti and organized by the Wunderkammer Orchestra and the WKO-ADA Dance Division—has been launched, in gratitude for the invaluable treatises of the distinguished Maestro from Sermoneta, who has bequeathed to us these magnificent dances. Although biographical details are fragmentary (drawn mostly from his works), Fabrizio Caroso is known to have been a celebrated choreographer and dance master, as well as a composer and writer. He dedicated his famous treatise *Il Ballarino* (Venice, 1581)—reprinted under the title *Nobiltà di Dame* (Venice, 1600 and 1605)—to the art of 16th-century dance; these are essential treatises for learning this repertoire and to which Caroso owes his undisputed fame.